Of course, I am sure that even plants can be aware of time in that way. But that is a very primitive way of understanding time. The human can be aware of a time from which he will not even live, or from which he never lived, the human has a truly complex understanding of time. If we had an animal understanding of time, we could not have made any progress that we have made as a society.
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The Elk and Deer predict the season accurately without clocks or calendars. They do this because they know if they do not, they will die.
I do not see what makes our understanding of time more advanced.
Well, humans can predict, plan and manage complex organizations with a much more accurate forecast of time than an animal, being able to measure all kinds of unpredictable variability.
Humans can also understand more precisely, the effects of current and past causes, to foresee the future. It is said that the sun will go out within 4500 million years, whether true or not, the fact that the human can capture in his brain this figure, and the fact that he can find alternatives so that a future society can avoid this catastrophe, it tells us a lot about the superior understanding of time for the human. An animal could not even understand such a large amount of time.
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I didn’t think much about animals and time, yes they do hibernate, migrate and the like but the aspect of ‘time’ as we know it seems to be a human construct.
Yes, that's what I'm trying to say. I don't think it's a construction, but an idea, a much deeper way of understanding time.